caa a22 4500 388054980 CHVBK 20180307125103.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00087597 doi S0003598X00087597 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00087597 Welch Paul D. Department of Anthropology, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing NY 11367, USA, Paul_Welch@qc.edu Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley by E.G. Squier & E.H. Davis: the first classic of US archaeology [Elektronische Daten] [Paul D. Welch] The two most important 19th-century books on archaeology in the United States both dealt with earthworks. The earlier of these two, Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim G. Squier & Edwin H. Davis, was the first volume published by the fledgling Smithsonian Institution, and is 150 years old this year. It presented, with lavish illustrations, information about hundreds of earthworks. Its principal argument was that the mounds had been built by an American race distinct from the historically known indigenes, no less and perhaps considerably more than 1000 years ago. This volume in no small measure catalysed the development of archaeology in the United States. Without Squier & Davis' extensive documentation of the vast number, size, complexity and variety of earthworks, the later book might never have been commissioned or might have been conceived in far less ambitious terms. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 earthworks nationallicence Moundbuilders nationallicence Ohio nationallicence history nationallicence Squier & Davis nationallicence 1848 nationallicence Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/278(1998-12), 921-927 0003-598X 72:278<921 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087597 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087597 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Welch Paul D. Department of Anthropology, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing NY 11367, USA, Paul_Welch@qc.edu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/278(1998-12), 921-927 0003-598X 72:278<921 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge